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FreeBSD 10.1 Released
An anonymous reader writes Version 10.1 of the venerable FreeBSD operating system has been released. The new version of FreeBSD offers support for booting from UEFI, automated generation of OpenSSH keys, ZFS performance improvements, updated (and more secure) versions of OpenSSH and OpenSSL and hypervisor enhancements. FreeBSD 10.1 is an extended support release and will be supported through until January 1, 2017.
Adds reader aojensen: As this is the second release of the stable/10 branch, it focuses on improving the stability and security of the 10.0-RELEASE, but also introduces a set of new features including: vt(4) a new console driver, support for FreeBSD/i386 guests on the bhyve hypervisor, support for SMP on armv6 kernels, UEFI boot support for amd64 architectures, support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) support on both IPv4 and IPv6, and much more. For a complete list of changes and new features, the release notes are also available.
That's nice, but when will FreeBSystemD be released?
I switched from Linux to FreeBSD a while ago. FreeBSD is so simple and clean, there's not all this extra bling running that I had with Linux. They have a good handbook right on their website that tells you how to do all the basics of system updating and installing things like browsers, email, video players and things. And as I use it I get the feeling that these guys are going to be around for a very long time, like I never have to worry anymore about whether my old Linux distro will just vanish with the few devs they had in comparison ending up leaving me stuck. FreeBSD is pretty huge it seems. They even have a nonprofit foundation that kicks in like a million bucks or so every year and as I read their page their projects show good results from it. Can't believe it took me so long to try FreeBSD. I'm sold and I'm never going back. Here is their foundation if you want to check them out too...
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
FreeBSD comes from 386BSD (1992), which comes from 4.xBSD (older).
The Wayback machine only shows 18 years for whitehouse.gov. What's this horseshit about 1776?
Do you ever say anything with any truth in it? The 4.x series was the worst in FreeBSD history as they switched on all the horrible SMP bits. No one used 4.x on anything that required stability.
I'm not sure you've used OpenBSD either by the words of your post.
Troll harder, will ya?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
... Freebsd.org itself was registered in 1994, and has roots in the original Berkley Software Distribution which is what it started from. BSD started in 1977, which was 37 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Its pretty difficult to get another large OS with the history that FBSD comes from, even counting Windows.
Ironically, archive.org ... was registered in 1995.
Yes, the FreeBSD domain is older than the site you're trying to use as a reference of saying that its not old.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
FreeBSD 1.0 was released November 2 1993. The 21st anniversary was just a few days ago.
That smell comes from that dead penguin over there. It blew its head off after failing to become the desktop OS during the past 20 years. To top it of, more and more server admins have started moving to *BSD.
He just could not take it anymore - SystemDisconnected
Everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform.
It says they synced the bhyve code with CURRENT but I didn't found anything mentioning anything about making it available to AMD processors.
They overlapped 7 development with 8 for 3 years! I'm all for deliberate, incremental changes, but you had 3 whole years to think, "Huh, I wonder if this code will work on 8?" and then fix it. Do you think that the OS should be backward-compatible forever? You can always run 7 in a jail if you are really hard up.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Nice to see UDP-lite supported in FreeBSD. I am an author of this protocol (RFC 3828) and we made our initial implementation of UDP-lite in BSD many years ago. I would be interested to hear of any experiences using UDP-lite.